Three of the Louisiana Tech Bulldog football players recently visited with the fifth graders at Ruston Elementary School and talked about being student athletes. The students prepared questions and asked them in a panel format. The players who attended were No. 39 Warren Bates, No. 16 Scotty Young and No. 68 Josh Richardson, who are pictured above with RES students.

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David “Rusty” Ponton has been named permanent vice president for student affairs at Grambling State University.

Ponton, 53, has been interim vice president since 2015 and has been a GSU fixture since he arrived on campus in 1988.

Ponton and his office are responsible for students’ non-academic activities, needs and opportunities to ensure that they receive a quality education and have a quality campus experience during their matriculation.

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James Nelson, associate dean of undergraduate studies for the COES, said the college is hoping to raise $7.5 million and use state grants to pay for the other half.

Nelson said the new building will encourage more collaboration among programs, facilitate the project-based curriculum and accommodate study groups for students.

Five families in Ruston have been haunted by silence for several years as they wait for answers in the suspected murders of five residents.

The two most recent murder victims — Christopher Tillman and Kevin Foster, killed in 2008 and 2009 — have received the most attention from media and police sources. However, a visit to the Ruston Lincoln Crime Stoppers website will reveal three other names waiting for answers. The murder cases of Foster and Tillman, along with Tyrone Vereen, who died in 2004, Jonas Turner Kirkpatrick and Deanthony Mack, who both died in 2003, are still all listed on the Crime Stoppers website under the tab “Unsolved Crimes.”